Community and Access Programmes at Wakehurst

We offer a range of accessible activities, workshops and monthly groups that support well-being and provide opportunities to learn about the exciting science, horticulture and history of Wakehurst.

The Community Access Scheme at Wakehurst is a group annual membership for organisations that provide services directly to people who face physical, sensory, psychological, or social barriers to visiting Wakehurst independently.

Wakehurst is proud to be a work experience partner with Team Domenica, who support young people with learning disabilities to find work experience placements and move into paid employment. 

We offer young people the chance to gain work experience and spend 1 week in Wakehurst departments: Millennium Seed Bank, Marketing, Visitors Centre, Horticulture team and Learning team. 

Explore the gardens for free during our annual Spring festival and discover what our Discovery and Access programmes have to offer.

We are committed to training the next generation of leaders and working with our local community.  We offer off site workshops, training and resources. 

If you would like us to be involved in your event, get in touch via wakehurstcommunity@kew.org

Trees for Bees is Wakehurst’s citizen science project investigating which flowering trees are favoured by our native pollinators.

On our community pollinator monitoring workshops, you can hear from one of our pollination scientists and learn how to spot pollinators around the gardens. For more info, contact us at wakehurstcommunity@kew.org

In May, Wakehurst are collaborating with multiple biological recording societies to create a baseline survey of the flora and fauna of Wakehurst that will underpin all research strands of Nature Unlocked.